>legally speaking.. if you're not sure of the risk- you don't document it.
Ah, so you kinda maybe sorta absolve yourself of culpability (but not really — "I didn't know this was copyrighted material" didn't grant you copyright), and simultaneously make fixing the potentially compromised codebase (someone else's job, hopefully) 100x harder because the history of which bits might've been copied was never kept.
Solid advice! As ethical as it is practical.
By the same measure, junkyards should avoid keeping receipts on the off chance that the catalytic converters some randos bring in after midnight are stolen property.
Better not document it.
One little trick the legal folks don't want you to know!
>And the reality is that confirmation is part of life.
Sycophantic agreement certainly is, as is lying, manipulation, abuse, gaslighting.
Those aren't the good parts of life.
Those aren't the parts I want the machine to do to people on a mass scale.
>You may even struggle to stay married if you don't learn to confirm your wife's perspectives.
Sorry what?
The important part is validating the way someone feels, not "confirming perspectives".
A feeling or a perspective can be valid ("I see where you're coming from, and it's entirely reasonable to feel that way"), even when the conclusion is incorrect ("however, here are the facts: ___. You might think ___ because ____, and that's reasonable. Still, this is how it is.")
You're doing nobody a favor by affirming they are correct in believing things that are verifiably, factually false.
There's a word for that.
It's lying.
When you're deliberately lying to keep someone in a relationship, that's manipulation.
When you're lying to affirm someone's false views, distorting their perception of reality - particularly when they have doubts, and you are affirming a falsehood, with intent to control their behavior (e.g. make them stay in a relationship when they'd otherwise leave) -
... - that, my friend, is gaslighting.
This is exactly what the machine was doing to the colleague who asked "which of us is right, me or the colleague that disagrees with me".
It doesn't provide any useful information, it reaffirms a falsehood, it distorts someone's reality and destroys trust in others, it destroys relationships with others, and encourages addiction — because it maximizes "engagement".
I.e., prevents someone from leaving.
That's abuse.
That, too is a part of life.
>I agree with your conclusion, but that's by design
All I did was named the phenomena we're talking about (lying, gaslighting, manipulation, abuse).
Anyone can verify the correctness of the labeling in this context.
I agree with your assertion, as well as that of the parent comment. And putting them together we have this:
LLM chatbots today are abusive by design.
This shit needs to be regulated, that's all. FDA and CPSC should get involved.
I'd love to know a few more local LLM apps that are available on Android and iOS and Mac/PC under the same branding that I can point my non-technical friends to as a ChatGPT alternative that works offline (but still has sync across the devices).
Their core product is local ML inference in the context of a photo app, i.e. a drop-in cloud dependency removal/replacement for non-technical, privacy-conscious users as well as those who want advanced functionality offline.
I think the hate boils down to "I could've built it in a day with Claude, but didn't, so they suck" sour grapes.
When the comments here say "there's no value because anyone could've compiled llama.cpp", you can see how detached from reality these people are.
Even jumping through the hoops to get an app on Play Store and Apple Store — an app that I can tell my friends to look up and download — is worth a lot.
An app that is also is available on Mac and PC, mind you.
I'm an ex-Google/Meta/Microsoft/Roblox software engineer, and I couldn't be bothered to do any of that.
Neither could the rest of HN. But I'm not the one complaining about lack of novelty or value in this proposition.
Ah, so you kinda maybe sorta absolve yourself of culpability (but not really — "I didn't know this was copyrighted material" didn't grant you copyright), and simultaneously make fixing the potentially compromised codebase (someone else's job, hopefully) 100x harder because the history of which bits might've been copied was never kept.
Solid advice! As ethical as it is practical.
By the same measure, junkyards should avoid keeping receipts on the off chance that the catalytic converters some randos bring in after midnight are stolen property.
Better not document it.
One little trick the legal folks don't want you to know!
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